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100
You use approximately 50 gallons of water every time you do this.
What is taking a shower?
100
Wise use of our natural resources such as water.
What is conservation?
100
The watershed you are currently standing in.
What is the Bear Creek Watershed?
100
Where the fresh water of a river mixes with the ocean.
What is an estuary?
100
Plant or animals that live in water are this type of organism.
What is aquatic?
200
Snow rain and sleet are all forms of this.
What is precipitation?
200
Planting trees and using silt fences reduces this.
What is erosion?
200
The Bear Creek Watershed is a part of this larger watershed.
What is the Rogue River Watershed?
200
An area like bogs swamps and marshes where pollution is filtered and flood waters absorbed.
What is a wetland?
200
The direction that a river flows is called this.
What is downstream?
300
Much of the worlds fresh water is tied up here.
What are glaciers?
300
Pollution from a non-specific source. Its hard to point where it comes from
What is non-point source pollution?
300
The city of Ashland has been fined many times for this violation.
What is warm water temperatures?
300
When water infiltrates the soil and rocks it becomes this.
What is groundwater?
300
Most of the water we consume comes from these sources that we don't see.
What is indirect consumption?
400
Jack and Jill and almost 40 million others rely on these for their water>
What is a well?
400
Industry, sewage, and agriculture.
Who are the largest contributors to water pollution?
400
The Medford Water Commission was fined for an overflow of this chemical into a nearby stream.
What is chlorine?
400
Where most watersheds end up.
What is the ocean?
400
The amount of water used to wash a load of laundry in a regular washer.
What is 50 gallons?
500
Water is made up of these two elements.
What are Hydrogen and Oxygen H2O.
500
An aquifer is water trapped between to layers that are not this.
What is permeable?
500
The water in these pipes drains directly into your stream.
What are storm drains?
500
The highest points in a water shed are called this.
What are the head waters?
500
Mr. Lynch
Who is the best teacher ever?